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People are falsely honorable when they disguise their faults from other people and from themselves. People are truly honorable when…
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“People are falsely honorable when they disguise their faults from other people and from themselves. People are truly honorable when they know them perfectly well and confess them.” - François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections . . .

“People are falsely honorable when they disguise their faults from other people and from themselves. People are truly honorable when they know them perfectly well and confess them.”

François de La Rochefoucauld, Moral Reflections

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